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                  <p class="p_Heading1"><span class="f_Heading1">UML Toolbox Appearance Options</span></p>



  
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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can modify the appearance of the Enterprise Architect UML </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_BodyText"> pages in several ways, through the context menu. Right-click on the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_BodyText"> page to display the menu.</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="toolboxcontext.png" width="153" height="98" border="0" alt="Toolboxcontext"></p>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">On a </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> page for an MDG Technology or UML Profile, if you right-click directly on a profile element an additional option - </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Synchronize</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> - is available at the end of the context menu. This enables you to <a href="synchronizetagsandconstrain.htm">synchronize</a> the Tagged Values and constraints for all elements created from the selected profile element. </span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">To hide the element or relationship labels (and subsequently redisplay them), select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Hide Labels</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> or </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Show Labels</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> context menu option. The icons in the page then 'wrap' within the page, without text labels.</span><br>
<span class="f_Bulletlist1">&nbsp;</span><br>
<img src="wrappedtools.png" width="284" height="64" border="0" alt="wrappedTools"><br>
<span class="f_Bulletlist1">&nbsp;</span><br>
<span class="f_Bulletlist1">When you hide the labels, you can display the label of an individual element or relationship by moving the cursor over the icon.</span></li>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">To 'pin' the page so that it displays for any group in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">, select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Pin in Toolbox</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> menu option. (This is not available on the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Common</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> page, which displays in all groups anyway.)</span><br>
<span class="f_Bulletlist1">&nbsp;</span><br>
<span class="f_Bulletlist1">For example, if you 'pinned' the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Class </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">elements page, and switched to the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Communication</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> pages, the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> would include a collapsed </span><span class="f_UIControl">Class </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">elements page underneath the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Communication </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">pages.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">To unpin the page so that it displays only in its own </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> group, right-click on it and select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Unpin from Toolbox</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> context menu option.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">To collapse a page to just show the heading (</span><span class="f_UIControl">&lt;type&gt; elements</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">, </span><span class="f_UIControl">&lt;type&gt; Relationships</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> or </span><span class="f_UIControl">Common</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">), click on the 'minus' box at the left of the page heading. To expand the page again, click on the heading. Alternatively, collapse the page by right-clicking on the page and selecting the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Collapse</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> context menu option.</span></li>
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<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Set Toolbox Visibility</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To tailor the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_BodyText"> to list all pages you require at the same time, follow the steps below:</span></p>
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<li value=1><span class="f_NumberedList">Click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Set Toolbox Visibility</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> context menu option. The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Visible Toolbox Pages</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog displays.</span><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span><br>
<img src="visible%20toolbox%20pages.png" width="432" height="387" border="0" alt="Visible Toolbox Pages"><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span></li>
<li value=2><span class="f_NumberedList">By default, the dialog lists the </span><span class="f_NumberedList" style="font-style: italic;">element</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> pages only, in the order: UML pages, Extended pages, MDG Technology pages. To include the corresponding </span><span class="f_NumberedList" style="font-style: italic;">relationship</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> pages, select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Show Relationship Pages</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> checkbox at the bottom of the dialog.</span></li>
<li value=3><span class="f_NumberedList">For each page to display on the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_NumberedList">, select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Visible</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> checkbox. Deselect the checkbox if you no longer require a page to be displayed.</span></li>
<li value=4><span class="f_NumberedList">When you have defined the list of pages to display, click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">OK</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button. The pages you have selected are pinned to the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> in a collapsed state, underneath the current diagram-type pages.</span><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span><br>
<img src="pinnedtoolbox.png" width="145" height="314" border="0" alt="PinnedToolbox"><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span></li>
<li value=5><span class="f_NumberedList">To expand a page, click on the heading. You can remove a page individually by expanding it, right-clicking on it and selecting the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Unpin from Toolbox</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> context menu option.</span></li>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">MDG Technologies can impose their own </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> page visibility. For example, if ICONIX is the active technology, all seven ICONIX pages are automatically exposed in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Toolbox</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText">. If the active Technology pages duplicate UML or Extended pages (as the ICONIX pages do) then the pinned Technology pages override and replace the pinned UML and Extended pages.</span></p>
<p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">For example, if ICONIX is active and you have pinned the Extended </span><span class="f_UIControl">Analysis</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> page, the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Analysis</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> page in the list is the ICONIX-defined page, not the Extended </span><span class="f_UIControl">Analysis</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> page.</span></p>
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